Mary Norris Dickinson

Mary Norris Dickinson
Portrait of Dickinson and daughter Sallie by Charles Willson Peale
Born	July 17, 1740 Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British America
Died	July 23, 1803(1803-07-23) (aged 63) Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Resting place	Friends Burial Ground in Wilmington, Delaware
Other names	Polly Norris Dickinson
Occupation(s)	Land and estate owner and manager
Spouse	John Dickinson ​ (m. 1770)​
Children	5

Mary "Polly" Norris Dickinson (July 17, 1740 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – July 23, 1803 in Wilmington, Delaware) was an early American land and estate owner and manager. She is known for her ownership of one of the largest libraries in the American colonies, her participation in political thought of the time, and her presence in or near events of the Constitutional Convention, including her marriage to Framer John Dickinson, one of the early drafters of the Constitution and one of its signers on behalf of the colony of Delaware. They bequeathed much of their combined library to the first college founded in the new United States. The college was originally named "John and Mary's College", by Benjamin Rush, for Norris Dickinson and her husband and is now called Dickinson College.